The liberal Diocese of Uruguay wants to leave the Province of the Southern Cone because the Province of the Southern Cone is conservative and the diocese thinks it is “adrift, as if condemned to stay in a province where it doesn’t fit.” Sound familiar?
It does to ANiC parishes in Canada who, for a while, took shelter under the Province of the Southern Cone because their dioceses were not just liberal but teetering on heresy; it was a unilateral decision roundly condemned as “cross-border intervention” by the hierocracy.
At least the Anglican Consultative Council is consistent in telling the Diocese of Uruguay that it must stay put. Personally, I think collecting all the liberal dioceses together into liberal provinces is not such a bad idea: they could shrivel up together without contaminating genuinely Christian dioceses.
The rainbow stoled Michael Pollesel, former general secretary of the Anglican Church of Canada, was elected as bishop by the Diocese of Uruguay, only to be turned down by the province, an act of exclusion that galled both the Diocese of Uruguay and the Anglican Church of Canada. And, to my considerable satisfaction, he was rejected twice.
From here:
The diocese of Uruguay says it feels “abandoned and unsupported” after the standing committee of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) turned down its request to change provinces.
The diocese, which is part of the province of the Southern Cone, has asked that it be transferred to the province of Brasil, which it says is “more compatible” in terms of theology, mission and philosophy.
It appealed to the ACC standing committee to review its decision, saying it feels “adrift, as if condemned to stay in a province where it doesn’t fit.”
The comment about the rainbow stole brought something to mind. In a recent Sermon our Parish Priest described the Stole as a symbol of a “yoke”, an indication of how he as a Priest is to “carry a burden” which is a type of work.
So what type of work does a Priest think he is supposed to be doing. You might find an indication of this in the design of the Stole that the Priest is wearing. If it is decorated with traditional Christian symbols that would suggest one thing, that the Priest is working for God. If it is decorated with other symbols, such as the homosexual rainbow, that would suggest something else, that the Priest is working for…